Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 12 Issue 2

Coverage of specialised biological information by on‐line databases and comparison of this coverage with an in‐house manual system of a special library/information unit

Vinod Datta

The paper reports a coverage study in the field of vegetable insecticides. The coverage of AGRICOLA, BIOSIS and CHEMCON databases is compared with an in‐house manual system of a…

The stability of symbol sets produced by variety generation from bibliographic data

E. Verity Brack, David Cooper, Michael F. Lynch

Variety Generation involves the selection of sets of character strings, or symbols, which are intended to occur with equal probabilities in bodies of text or sets of text units…

Building a Serials File

Ross Bourne

The paper outlines international standards at present available for serials cataloguing, and goes on to describe the North American CONSER project in which these standards are…

News and Short Communications

The Minimal‐input Cataloguing System which is under development at Loughborough University of Technology Library, has had a number of modifications made to the original plans and…

Letter to the Editor

Harry East

Dear Sir, The review (Program, Oct. 1977) of the report by Groenewegen and MarsHall ‘optical character recognition: the use of OCR techniques in decentralized data collection for…

Reviews

NRCd have produced a useful pamphlet which, because of machine development, unfortunately will soon be out of date. In discussing six ‘full‐size’ COM fiche readers a phrase such…